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Spiced with quirky comedy and charged emotions, this soulful family-oriented saga sparks off with a 78 year old Ramankutty (Dileep) telling his story in a flashback to his grandchildren. He belonged to a family of wedding planners. During one such wedding at the Ambadi Thampi's house where Ramankutty is in charge of organising the event, the marriage gets cancelled at the last minute. The reason for the cancellation is that the groom is unwilling to marry a woman who is a mute.
A good man at heart, Ramankutty asks his brother who is a doctor to marry the helpless girl. But soon Ramankutty falls in love with the girl's sister Gowri (Navya Nair), but she pretends to be in love with her uncle's son (Boban Kunchakko), a pop-singer in Bangalore.
However, later Ramankutty learns that Gowri loves him, but Thampi is unwilling as he has been informed by astrologers that the women in Ramankutty's family die at a very young age and so he is against their wedding. How Ramankutty succeeded in marrying Gowri against all odds and lived to tell their grandchildren about their love story, forms the rest of the story.

Storyline

This soulful romantic drama delves into the fluctuating fortunes in the life of Thekkedathu Ramankutty (Dileep), a handsome young man who works as a marriage organizer. He meets Gauri (Navya Nair) while arranging the marriage for her sister Radhika (Jyothirmayi), daughter of a family friend Ambattu Thampi (Lalu Alex). Radhika's fiancee does not turn up for the marriage.

Ramankutty suggests that his brother Dr. Sivadas (Bobby Alumoodan) will be ready for the marriage and Dr. Sivadas and Radhika gets married on the same day itself. Ramankutty and Gauri fall in love. But on the day of their engagement, Radhika dies in a kitchen fire accident.

When Thampi visits the astrologer Meppattu Thirumeni (Thilakan) to see the horoscope match, he tells them that women married into the Thekkedathu family are fated to die young. Thampi, scared for his only remaining daughter's life, asks Ramankutty to back out of the marriage. Saddened and yet wanting to do the right thing,

Ramankutty calls off the wedding on the pretense of not being comfortable with Gauri's close relations with her cousin Unni (Kunchako Boban). Devastated by this allegation, Gauri backs out of the marriage, only to find the truth later. She runs out in search of Ramankutty and gets involved in a road accident on the way.

She is rushed to the hospital and while still battling for life, she wishes that Ramankutty tie the wedding knot before her operation. Ramankutty ties the knot, fearing the worst. Miraculously, Gauri comes out alive.

The story is told in flashback by an aged Ramankutty who bids farewell to his spellbound teenage audience at the temple, and joins his wife Gauri in lighting the lamp.

This film was remade in Telugu under the title Kalyanaramudu (2003) starring Venu, Suman, Prabhudeva and Nikita Thukral.

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